{"id":30612,"date":"2016-07-08T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=30612"},"modified":"2022-12-27T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T09:02:07","slug":"van-eys-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/van-eys-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Eys, Peter van"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter (Petrus)<\/strong> Van Eys <\/strong>was an 18th-century Dutch scholar, who wrote in his 1715 Ph.D. dissertation [<\/sup>1222<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> on Plato, of the connections he perceived between Moses and the story of Atlantis. This led him to conclude that Atlantis had been situated in the Holy Land<\/a>, a view popular until that time.<\/p>\n

><\/span><\/strong>Atlantisforschung<\/em><\/a>, commenting on Van Eys, concluded(a) <\/sup>\u00a0 that “<\/em>it should be noted that the heyday of the\u00a0‘<\/em>Atlantis\u00a0in the <\/em>Holy Land’\u00a0thesis’ was already over in his day.\u00a0It is true that in 1826 – a year before the publication of his doctoral thesis – the\u00a0‘dissertation sur le Critias de Platon’\u00a0by the French scholar\u00a0<\/em>Claude-Mathieu Olivier<\/em><\/a>\u00a0appeared, who took the view that\u00a0<\/em>Plato’s Atlantis report basically represents a description of events from the early days of the Jewish people. However, these and similar writings of the 18th century only represented the short-lived renaissance of an already outdated ‘Bible-true view of Atlantis’.”<<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>Peter van Eys \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter (Petrus) Van Eys was an 18th-century Dutch scholar, who wrote in his 1715 Ph.D. dissertation [1222] on Plato, of the connections he perceived between Moses and the story of Atlantis. This led him to conclude that Atlantis had been situated in the Holy Land, a view popular until that time. >Atlantisforschung, commenting on Van […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,1983,7529,41,3617,4982,132],"class_list":["post-30612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-atlantisforschung","tag-claude-mathieu-olivier","tag-holy-land","tag-moses","tag-peter-van-eys","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57257,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612\/revisions\/57257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}